Drinking device



B. A. STAIR.

DRINKING DEVICE.

APPLICATION mm JULY 6. I911.

Patented Aug. 26,1919.

VWinesses THE COLUMBIA PLANOCIRADH c0.. WASHINGTON. D. c

BLAINE A. STAIR, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

DRINKING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented A11 26, 1919.

Application filed July 6, 1917. Serial No. 179,022.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BLAINE A. STAIR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angelcs and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Drinking Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to drinking devices, and more particularly to drinking devices for the use of soldiers, campei's or travelers, and the invention has for its object to pro duce a flexible and sanitary device which may be readily carried and which will be serviceable when the only available water supply is such as a muddy creek, pond or the like. Soldiers and others frequently find themselves in positions where no pure drinking water is to be had, and in order to sustain life must obtain drinking water from creeks or ponds in which the water may contain small animal life as well as disease germs, and it is in such cases that a device organized in accordance with the invention is of great value.

In accordance Withthe invention a filterreceiving cup-like body is provided at one end of a flexible, preferably rubber tube, and such cup-like body is preferably notched at its edge to provide against total closure of the mouth of the cup when in use; the end of the rubber tube opposite the end at which the cup is provided may be placed in the mouth of the user and the cup-like portion lowered into the water, a wad of cotton which may be treated with antiseptics having first been placed in the cup-like portion. Upon sucking on the tube the water will be drawn through the filtering substance and through the tube into the mouth of the user. In one form of the invention the cup-like body is provided with a suitable nipple and the flexible tube may be removcd therefrom, to the endthat, the cup-like body may be used as a cigarette or cigar holder; a further use to which the device may conveniently be put in an emergency, is the stopping of the flow of blood in case of severe wounds as to a hand or foot of the user, as an injured person may apply the device himself, as a tourniquet by wrapping the tubular portion thereof, tightly stretched, about the wrist or ankle. A further object of the invention is to provide a device of the general character stated which will be relatively simple and inexpensive in construction, when its superior advantages are considered, which may be readily sterilized,-which may be compacted into a small space, and which will be generally superior in reliability and serviceability.

lVith the above and other objects in view, the invention consists in the novel and use ful provision, formation, combination and inter-relation of parts, members and features, allas hereinafter described, shown in the drawing, and finally pointed out in claims.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 isa fragmentary side elevation of an improved drinking device organized in accordance with the invention, parts being broken away and sectioned for clearness of illustration Fig. 2 is a View of the device shown in Fig. 1 in coiled or compacted form.

The parts in the several figures are desig nated by the same reference characters.

Referring with particularity to the drawing, A designates a flexible tubular member, B designates a filter-receiving body, and C designates a body of filtering material.

The flexible tubular member A is shown as a length of relatively small diameter rubber tubing 5, provided at one of its ends with a nipple (i, suitably formed for engagement with the lips of a user, and attached at its other end to the body B as at 7 The body B preferably consists of an inverted cup-like preferably rubber member 8 provided at its upper end with a shank 9 over which the end of the rubber tubing 5 at 7 is stretched and fitted, the shank being shown as provided with an annular lateral flange or rib 10. The member 8 is in the main of larger diameter than the shank 9 and at its lower edge is preferably thickened or provided with a rim as at 11 which rim 11 is notched or castellated as at 12. The shank 9 has a bore 13 therethrough in which bore is fitted a short tube 1 of rubber or other suitable material. The tube 11 has a plurality of orifices 15 through its walls where it projects for a slight distance into the hollow interior of the member 8, an annular interspace being provided as at 16 between the exterior walls of the tube 14 and the upper portion of the interior walls of the member 8.

The filtering body C may comprise a loose wad or plug 17 of cotton or the like, which is fitted into the lower portion of the member 8 and which may be pressed against the lower end of the tube 14. The cotton may be treated With lantiseptics or a germicide before or after being placed in the cup-like member '8. Y -The operation, method of use and advantages of the invention will be readily understood from the taken in connection with the accompanying drawing and the following statement:-

A soldier, camper, or the like may carry one of the drinking devices, of either form shown in the drawing, by tying the same to portions of his clothing or by coiling the same as shown in Fig. 2 so that the same may be carried in a pocket or a suitable container, which container, if used, may

likewise carry an additional supply of filtering material such as cotton or any other suitable material. Upon placing ajwad or plug of cotton or other filtrant in the filterreceiving cup provided at' the base of the tube no foreign material in the water will be drawn into the mouth ofthe user when he sucks on the tube- In case the filtering material has been treated with antiseptic or the like, or water-purifying chemicals, the water sucked through the tube will be purified or ridden of undesirable matter. In the use of the device, the user simplyplaces the nipple end in his mouth and lowers the cup-shaped portion, with the filtering material therein, into a body of water from which it is desired to drink. The castellated portion of the cup will prevent the adherence of the device to submerged rocks or other substances in the water as would be likely to occur were not provision made to prevent such adherence. If the device should lie against or be deposited with the lower edge upon a fiat surface the water can still be vided in the cup rim. The cotton or other filtrant is prevented from clogging the tube, in the form of the invention shown in Figs. 1 and 3, by the tube 14 which provides for an annular interspace between the tube 14 and the cup walls, the liquid entering the suction tube through the orifices 15.

The device may be readily sterilized as occasion may require. In case a device organized as in the form ofthe invention illus trated is to be'used as a cigarette or cigar holder, all that is necessary is to remove the tube 5 from the body B, the shank 9 with its annular bead or rim 10 serving admirably as a nipple to be held in the mouth.

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drawn through-the notches pro-' of the user and the cup-shaped portion 8 may have the endof a cigarette or a cigar placed therein. The device may be used, as a soap bubble blower if so desired, it only to remove the filtering mathe invention. 7

It is manifest that many variations in details of construction may be made without departing from the'spirit of the invention and the-terms of thefollowing claims.

Having thus disclosed my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. In a drinking device, a flexible tubular member provided at its lower' end with a cup-shaped portion adapted to receive filteri ing material; said cup-shaped portion being provided with a tube which extends into the same, and said tube having ducts therethrough.

2. In a drinking device, a flexible tubular member provided at its lower end with a cup-shaped portion adapted to receive filtering material; said cup-shaped portion being provided with a tube which extends into the same, andsaid tube having ducts therethrough and there being an annular interspace between said tube and the walls of said cup-shaped portion.

3. In a drinking device, a'flexible tubular member, a cup-shaped member having one end reduced and formed into a shank, one end of said tubular member receiving said shank, a tubular member mounted within the shank and extending into the body of the cupshaped member in spaced relation to the inner walls thereof, said last named tubular member having orifices therein and to provide for this use of terminating at a. polnt considerably spaced from the lower end of the cup-shaped. member and filtering material mounted within the cup-shaped member.

i. In a drinking device, a flexible tubular member provided at its lower end with a cup-shaped portion adapted to receive filtering material; said cup-shaped portion being providedwith a tube which extends into the same and has an opening for communication of the cup-shaped portion with said flexible tubular member.

, In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

Y Witnesses: 7 Ammo H. DAEHLER, ADA HUFFM N.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, I). G.

BLAINE A. STAIR. 

